Description: The light-skinned man stands 6'5" and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Spice Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Spice Merchant work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 600 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (90 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He very much looks the part of a Ruler. His hair is blonde and curly. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 40 gp. Deep green spinel (150 gp).

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a white and brown robe with the hood down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 2'10" when asserting himself. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, In love, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Tabaxi, and stands approximately 6'3". He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and his gloved hand is found clutching a glaive. His orange fur is singed and shortened. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Cask was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Herbalist. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Simple lock.

Description: This younger middle-aged man tends to wear a large black jacket, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His crest is short and black. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Valorean never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: In love, Job, Rich, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears baggy red pantaloons and a brown scarf. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Willow is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Scribe they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Farmer, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Passionate, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants, marred by chocolates. His chestnut hair is cut short. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered drow who tried to eat his hand. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by drow. Hork was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 10000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.